Do apteki jest dalej niż do sklepu.

to be

Breakdown of Do apteki jest dalej niż do sklepu.

• sklep: the store
• do: to
• niż: than

Questions & Answers about Do apteki jest dalej niż do sklepu.

Why is do used before both apteki and sklepu?

Because the sentence is talking about distance to a place.

• do apteki = to the pharmacy
• do sklepu = to the shop/store

In Polish, do is the normal preposition when you mean movement or direction toward many enclosed places, buildings, or destinations. Here it does not mean actual movement is happening right now; it just marks the destination in a distance comparison.

What case are apteki and sklepu, and why?

They are in the genitive case.

That is because the preposition do requires the genitive:

• apteka → do apteki
• sklep → do sklepu

So a learner should think of do as a preposition that automatically changes the noun into genitive.

Why does apteka change to apteki, but sklep changes to sklepu?